February 11, 2011

We have everything painted but the kitchen, which needs another coat. We got a bookshelf and a new dresser too. Just in time for me to have to leave! At least that´s what I think. I don´t know for sure, but ususally the girls don´t have more than 3 cambios in one sector.

I´m keeping this short so that I can have time to send pictures, but I´m still doing great! The mission is hard, but I love that I´m here. Elder Amado, the area president of Chile, came for our training meeting last Wednesday. We´ve found a lot of great families to teach, my muscles were not sore from painting, and today our zone went to Las Cascadas.

Love you all and thanks for all of your support!

Jamie

February 4, 2011

So, we´re painting our house today! I´ll send pictures later, but that also means that I don´t have much time to write. Elder Amado, the area president of Chile is coming to talk in our training meeting next Wednesday. Most of the people we´re working with are traveling this week, but everyone is still doing really well and we´re seeing a lot of miracles. It´s so exciting to hear about all that is going on at home. Thanks so much for all of your love and support. I´m glad to hear that everyone is doing well! I love you all!
Love,
Jamie

January 28, 2011

I don´t know where to start. This week has been crazy. Great, but crazy. We´ve found a lot of really great new people to teach which is awesome but very tiring. All of the missionaries in our zone came to work in our sector last Thursday which was really fun, but created a lot of work for us because they all set citas with different people for the same times for us to follow up on. Two elders found a couple who had taken the discussions before, but for some reason had fallen through the cracks when our sector switched from Elders to Hermanas. Anyway, they ran up to these Elders and basically said "We want to get baptized, how do we get in contact with the missionaries?" It turns out they were getting married the next morning, so the four of us went to the wedding Friday morning. We´re in their wedding pictures now, so we kinda have to do something significant for their lives, like bring them the joy and fullfilment of the Gospel or something. The ironic thing is that right after the wedding we went to the church for our zone meeting just as a funeral was ending there. The circle of life...



In other news, I have hit a record number of bug bites this week... 21!



We really have too many great people we are working with to give you all the details on everyone. Fernando is still doing great and preparing for his baptism on the 12th. We have this new couple and their baby, the parents and little sisters of the husband of that family, his uncle and cousin, another kid who told us after our second lesson "I feel like I learned something today. I feel like you opened a window and I´m a little bit closer to God." It was awesome. We have about 6 other families that we´re working with as well. There´s a lot to do, but it´s rewarding work! I wouldn´t trade the experiences I´m having right now for anything else I could possibly be doing at this time in my life. It´s hard, but I can already see the ways that it has changed me and who I will be for the rest of my life for the better, and I´m excited for all of the other lessons that await me in the next 13 months.



Thanks for all of your love and support!

Jamie



P.S. Please tell Afton her letter made my life. haha. I´m trying to get to writing everyone back, but I don´t have a lot of time for writing. I think about you all all the time!